Monday, May 27, 2013

Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, has told an
inquiry that the Catholic Church’s history of child abuse is a result of
loose entry requirements for priests, past errors of judgment and
inaction.
“The entry procedures ... for candidates in the middle of last
century was much too loose,” Cardinal Pell, who is the Archbishop of
Sydney and a former archbishop of Melbourne, told the Victorian child
abuse inquiry in Melbourne yesterday.

Cardinal Pell apologised for the abuse committed by Catholic clergy.
“I’m fully apologetic and absolutely sorry,” he said. “That is the basis
for everything which I’ll say now.”
Damage done

Cardinal Pell said the church had not understood the damage being done
to victims of child sex abuse. “I would agree that we’ve been slow to
address the anguish of the victims and dealt with it very imperfectly,”
he told the inquiry. “I think a big factor in this was not simply to
defend the name of the church. Many in the church did not understand
just what damage was being done to the victims. We understand that
better now.”

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